Turning to Ireland, he held that, 'in spite of the
Renbens of politics" who here and there, "unstable as water, had rolled back to the place where they bad originally been," the Unionists are now more closely united than they had ever hitherto been. And he believed that the restoration of order in Ireland, though gradual, is still steady, and will be complete. It is true, said Lord Salisbury, that a "change, an ominous change, is stealing over the ethics of party warfare in this country," and that this change is very unfavourable to the work in hand. None the less, he anticipated that the inevitable result must be success. There Lord Salisbury is sanguine. For our own part, we do not think that the complete supremacy of law can be soon restored in Ireland by any process, for years to come. By Home- rule all hope of it would be terminated. Lord Salisbury made no allusion to any approaching modification of the Government.
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